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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Bill aims to prevent environmental ‘rollbacks’
Some call it
‘political theater’
recommend or take actions ment against recommending Act, Clean Water Act and focus on their core mission
to ensure that Oregon’s envi- the bill for approval, criti- Safe Water Drinking Act, while lawmakers should
ronmental rules maintain cizing the proposal for being which are the focus of HB develop laws that bene-
or exceed the federal pro- unnecessary rather than for 2250, she said.
fi t Oregon irrespective of
tections before the Trump regulatory overreach.
Oregon’s environmen- what goes on at the fed-
administration
eral level, she
took offi ce.
said. “Oregon’s
“Oregon’s
‘FOR US, WE SEE THIS AS A RESOURCE DRAIN ON laws should be
clean air and
by sci-
AGENCIES THAT ARE ALREADY VERY BEHIND ON driven
water are part
ence, not pol-
of what makes
itics or who’s
MEETING A LOT OF THEIR KEY METRICS.’
our state a great
in offi ce at any
Mary Anne Cooper, vice president of public policy for the Oregon Farm Bureau
place to live,
given point, ”
work and play.
she said.
Unfortunately,
O r e g o n ’s
the Trump administration has
“For us, we see this as a tal statutes also don’t neatly natural resource agencies are
relentlessly attacked environ- resource drain on agencies align with their federal coun- already governed by statu-
mental safeguards that keep that are already very behind terparts, as they contain tory mandates that are broad
our communities healthy and on meeting a lot of their key different exemptions and enough that many changes
vibrant,” Gov. Kate Brown metrics,” said Mary Anne triggers for enforcement, could be enacted administra-
said Tuesday during a legis- Cooper, vice president of Cooper said. “I’m not sure tively, rather than by passing
lative hearing.
public policy for the Oregon how they would even under- new state laws, Cooper later
A coalition of 18 groups Farm Bureau.
take an analysis if something told the Capital Press.
representing agriculture, for-
Without an act of Con- is a rollback or a signifi cant
The concern about HB
estry and business interests is gress, Oregon cannot change change when our laws don’t 2250 is that it’s largely a
urging the House Committee the federal pre-emptive fully line up, ” she said.
political statement about the
on Energy and the Environ- authority of the Clean Air
State agencies should Oregon government’s disap-
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
A bill requiring Ore-
gon government agencies to
protect against “rollbacks”
of federal environmental
regulations has been dis-
missed as “political theater”
by farm, ranch and timber
organizations.
Under House Bill 2250,
state natural resource agen-
cies would have to mon-
itor whether changes to
federal air and water regu-
lations have fallen short of
standards enacted under the
Obama administration.
The state Department of
Environmental Quality and
other agencies would then
proval of the Trump admin-
istration’s policies —which
everyone already knows —
but it could further strain
agencies that struggle to ful-
fi ll their main functions, she
said.
During the legislative
hearing, the Department of
Environmental
Quality’s
director, Richard Whitman,
acknowledged that HB 2250
wouldn’t endow the state’s
Environmental
Quality
Commission with any addi-
tional power, so any actions
would be taken under its
existing authority.
Jason Miner, Brown’s nat-
ural resources policy man-
ager, said the bill is intended
to keep state agencies vig-
ilant for changes affecting
environmental protections.
“It’s not new authority
but it is new information,”
Miner said.
Snow, ice expected for the North Coast
ON THE RECORD
cants and impeding traffi c.
• At about 11:45 a.m.
on Wednesday, Christo-
pher James Gibson, 59, of
Astoria was arrested by
Astoria police on the 700
block of W. Marine Drive
and charged with DUII . He
DUII
• At about 12:45 a.m. on
Wednesday, Enrique Sut-
phin, 23, of Astoria, was
arrested on the 400 block of
S. Roosevelt Drive in Sea-
side and charged with driving
under the infl uence of intoxi-
was arrested after police
received a report that there
was a man who appeared to
be intoxicated while going
through the drive-thru. His
blood alcohol content was
0.03 percent and is being
tested for other intoxicants.
The Daily Astorian
S now could be coming to
the North C oast .
The National Weather
Service predicts snow is
possible tonight into Fri-
day morning . F lurries are
expected, with little to no
accumulation for many
locations.
Temperatures will be cold
enough for snow to stick to
paved surfaces, however,
possibly creating an icy
commute Friday morning.
More signifi cant snow-
fall could arrive Friday night
and Saturday .
Wet or slushy roadways
on Saturday are expected to
freeze quickly overnight and
create icy road conditions
into Sunday.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
45
32
28
Mostly cloudy, a little
rain; chilly
Rather cloudy and cold
SUNDAY
MONDAY
42
25
40
28
Mostly cloudy, showers
around; chilly
Mostly cloudy and cold
42
32
OBITUARIES
Chilly with periods of rain
Thomas Edward Lee
Greeley, Colorado
Sept. 21, 1936 — Jan. 27, 2019
ALMANAC
REGIONAL WEATHER
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
28/45
Astoria through Wednesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 42°/24°
Normal high/low ........................... 51°/37°
Record high ............................ 65° in 1954
Record low ............................. 20° in 2014
Tillamook
28/45
Salem
28/44
Newport
34/46
Sunset tonight ........................... 5:29 p.m.
Sunrise Friday ............................. 7:30 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 9:07 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 8:26 p.m.
Full
Feb 12
Last
Feb 19
Coos Bay
36/48
New
Feb 26
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
9:31 a.m.
9:37 p.m.
Low
2.3 ft.
0.6 ft.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Hi
79
43
44
22
14
53
51
22
82
62
14
49
61
70
79
75
79
47
31
53
48
30
55
40
58
Ontario
18/37
Burns
13/31
Klamath Falls
20/36
Lakeview
17/33
Ashland
32/45
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
32
36
49
44
45
34
44
42
47
50
Today
Lo
14
20
38
29
30
20
30
26
34
37
W
s
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
Hi
32
37
52
43
45
36
46
43
46
48
Fri.
Lo
25
27
37
33
35
21
34
35
35
36
W
sn
sf
sh
c
r
sf
c
sh
c
sh
City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
42
27
41
45
43
46
24
45
42
26
Today
Lo
22
16
26
34
28
29
18
30
25
13
W
pc
s
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
Hi
37
29
41
45
44
45
25
44
41
28
Fri.
Lo
28
26
32
36
34
34
13
36
34
19
W
sn
sn
sh
sh
c
r
sn
c
sh
sn
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Lo
52
39
4
4
-5
21
28
13
65
12
2
33
41
24
68
26
51
42
12
44
10
14
44
28
50
Baker
14/32
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019
Tonight's Sky: Hydra, the water snake, is so big that
it takes more than seven hours for the whole snake
to rise.
High
8.2 ft.
8.1 ft.
La Grande
19/31
Roseburg
34/45
Brookings
38/51
Mar 6
John Day
21/37
Bend
20/37
Medford
30/46
UNDER THE SKY
Time
3:36 a.m.
3:12 p.m.
Prineville
19/38
Lebanon
28/44
Eugene
29/43
SUN AND MOON
First
Pendleton
16/29
The Dalles
21/34
Portland
26/41
Precipitation
Wednesday ....................................... 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 1.12"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.61"
Year to date ...................................... 6.05"
Normal year to date ........................ 11.81"
W
pc
r
r
pc
sn
r
s
c
sh
r
sn
s
s
t
pc
pc
pc
sh
pc
sh
r
pc
s
pc
c
Hi
55
54
14
39
11
22
57
27
81
23
21
52
61
39
80
39
54
55
35
57
24
34
53
38
59
Fri.
Lo
35
25
2
17
-3
10
34
20
65
10
8
35
44
24
69
21
43
27
21
24
11
23
44
31
26
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
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s
pc
s
c
s
c
pc
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DEATH
Feb. 6, 2019
SCOTT, Daphne Joan, 84, of Astoria, Oregon, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton
Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Seaside Parks Advisory Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
LOTTERIES
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
CLATSOP
POWER
EQUIPMENT , INC.
SALES SERVICE RENTALS
•
Thomas Edward Lee, 82, of Greeley, Col- in Hawaii. He was also an avid outdoors-
orado, passed away Jan. 27, 2019.
man, enjoying long rifl e hunting, fi shing and
He was born Sept. 21, 1936, in Astoria, camping, as well as stock car racing.
Survivors include his chil-
Oregon, to Robert E. and Maria
dren, Kathleen Runnells, Roberta
W. (Schricker) Lee. He grew up
Lee, Margo Agens and Gary
and graduated from high school in
Lee; 11 grandchildren; and six
Astoria.
great-grandchildren.
After high school, Tom enlisted
He was preceded in death by
in the Air Force and was stationed
his parents; his wife; and a grand-
at Warren Air Force Base in Chey-
son, Rory Thomas Parker.
enne, Wyoming, where he met
A celebration of life ser-
Joan Tomiko Ohashi. On Jan. 27,
vice will be held at the Christian
1956, they were married and spent
Church of Warrenton, Oregon, on
64 wonderful years together. She
Thomas Lee
Feb. 9, 2019, at 11 a.m. Inurnment
preceded him in death on Aug. 24,
will follow at Ocean View Ceme-
2018.
Tom was considered a “Founding Father” tery in Warrenton.
A celebration of life service will also
of the Millwright Local Union 2834, and
was recognized as a respected journeyman be held in Loveland, Colorado, on June
23, 2019. Friends may leave condolences
millwright for his entire career.
He loved riding his Harley-Davidson and and fi nd more information on local service
was a member of the D.B. Motorcycle Club details at AdamsonCares.com
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